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An inducible mouse model of melanoma expressing a defined tumor antigen

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العنوان: An inducible mouse model of melanoma expressing a defined tumor antigen
المصدر: Cancer Research, Vol. 66, no. 6, p. 3278-3286 (2006)
بيانات النشر: American Association for Cancer Research 2006
تفاصيل مُضافة: UCL - MD/MIGE - Département de microbiologie, d'immunologie et de génétique
Huijbers, Ivo J.
Krimpenfort, Paul
Chomez, Patrick
van der Valk, Martin A.
Song, Ji-Ying
Inderberg-Suso, Else-Marit
Schmitt-Verhulst, Anne-Marie
Berns, Anton
Van den Eynde, Benoît
نوع الوثيقة: Electronic Resource
مستخلص: Cancer immunotherapy based on vaccination with defined tumor antigens has not yet shown strong clinical efficacy, despite promising results in preclinical models. This discrepancy might result from the fact that available preclinical models rely on transplantable tumors, which do not recapitulate the long-term host-tumor interplay that occurs in patients during progressive tumor development and results in tumor tolerance. To create a faithful preclinical model for cancer immunotherapy, we generated a transgenic mouse strain developing autologous melanomas expressing a defined tumor antigen recognized by T cells. We chose the antigen encoded by P1A, a well-characterized murine cancer germ line gene. To transform melanocytes, we aimed at simultaneously activating the Ras pathway and inactivating tumor suppressor Ink4a/Arf, thereby reproducing two genetic events frequently observed in human melanoma. The melanomas are induced by s.c. injection of 4-OH-tamoxifen (OHT). By activating a CreER recombinase expressed from a melanocyte-specific promoter, this treatment induces the loss of the conditional Ink4a/Arf gene in melanocytes. Because the CreER gene itself is also flanked by loxP sites, the activation of CreER also induces the deletion of its own coding sequence and thereby allows melanocyte-specific expression of genes H-ras and P1A, which are located downstream on the same transgene. All melanomas induced in those mice with OHT show activation of the Ras pathway and deletion of gene Ink4a/Arf. In addition, these melanomas express P1A and are recognized by P1A-specific T lymphocytes. This model will allow to characterize the interactions between the immune system and naturally occurring tumors and thereby to optimize immunotherapy approaches targeting a defined tumor antigen.
مصطلحات الفهرس: Animals, Antigens, Neoplasm, CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes, Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16, Disease Models, Animal, Melanoma, Experimental, Mice, Mice, Transgenic, Recombination, Genetic, Tamoxifen, Tumor Suppressor Protein p14ARF, ras Proteins, info:eu-repo/semantics/article
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/10516Test
الإتاحة: Open access content. Open access content
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
ملاحظة: English
أرقام أخرى: UCDLC oai:dial.uclouvain.be:boreal:10516
boreal:10516
info:doi/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-3216
info:pmid/
urn:ISSN:0008-5472
urn:EISSN:1538-7445
1130584497
المصدر المساهم: UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN
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